The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-02
The Princess Private Dairy.


The dairy proper, where the princess
makes thick, yellow cream turn into
fragrant butter through the medium of
a dainty silver churn, has also much to
interest the visitor. The walls are COW
cred with tiles presented to the prince,
and which he had placed here as a sur
prise for his royal dairymaid. These
tiles were made In Bombay and are of
a peculiar peacock blue, in which the
rose, the shamrock, the thistle and the
motto "Ich Diem" are ingeniously
i~ntertwined.
Round the room runs a white marble
counter covered with silver pans por'
ceiain lined and bearing the plumes
and princess initials. These were filled
with cream coated milk from the sweet
breathed Attorneys near by.
Broad bracket shelves of marble held
numerous COWS, bullocks and calves OF
different sizes and svery imaginable
material, including Italian and Paris
ian marble. alabaster, china, terra
Gotta and silver, all gifts. y long milk
jug, painted by the Princess Louise to
match the Indian thing, stood in one
corner, and opposite the door was the
mounted head of the princess pet
Attorney, with q silver plate recording
her virtues and the number OF prizes
she had at shows.
On a marble table stood a simple
| gilt and white china tea set and q pile
of napkins marked with the royal
| stamp. This is for the benefit OF stray
visitors from the hall who wanted a
drink of fresh milk. | had n drink
myself, and as there is no place nearer
than three miles where Il can get
refreshments, it tasted particularly
| good.
In the adjoining room, neatly tiled
from floor to ceiling, the butter for the
hall is made, and when the family are
in London it is sent up fresh every
morning. The days supply was laid
| out on white platters previous to being
packed, and very tempting 1T looked,
and very delicious it tasted. 1t was
made up in little pats and scrolls,
strawberries and balls, all ready for
the table. With an air of pride Dame
Barber said: "If you look here, mum, u
| pointing to a dish on one side, you'll
| see his highness'; over and particular |
have to be about it; not a grain of salt
to go in; only a taste like in the cream,
and the pats to be Just SO thick, and
not as big round as the other"
| looked at Albert Edwards pats
with interest. Yes, they were the size
| of a half dollar, the thickness of three,
and bore in rich butter relief either the
| crown, the coat of arms, or the three
feathers of his royal highness. 1t
| almost worried me to think Of the
prince at every meal ingulfing his coat
of arms, feeling his crown melt in his
mouth; and would the feathers by any
| possibility tickle his noble throat as
| they giided down, 1 wondered.
With the butter packed III shallow
baskets or hampers, go little pals of
cream and milk, the pals FURNISHED
pewter with brass trimmings and coat
OF arms, and quantities of fruit and
| produce from the garden.
"Does the princess make butter
often?" 1 asked before leaving the
pretty dairy, in which the mingled
odor of poisoning flowers aad fresh
butter We'd with any scent Rimmel Can
produce.
"Lor', num-" answered the plump
guardian of the place, "her 'ighness
used to come regular, and she'd churn
away till the red flew up in her cheeks
like, trying to make the butter come.
and she would not let me lay a hand to
it.; but this year she was that took up
with skatin', which was uncommon
good, that she only anne in twice or
three times to the butter room But
her highness came in nigh every day
when she'd been having a trot about the
park or the village to take a cup OF tea
with the ladies', and then she'd send
the lad for strawberries and q loaf as
Well.D